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1¢ Franklin Plating Archive Floobydust |
| "Floobydust" is a contemporary term derived from the archaic Latin miscellaneus, whose disputed history probably springs from Greek origins (influenced, of course, by Egyptian linguists) - the meaning here "a mixed bag of stuff." I swiped the term originally from the National Semiconductor Audio Radio Handbook 1980. Around 1984, when I was just a gossling Electrical Engineer, the senior engineers would go home at 4 p.m. There day would consist of cursing and spitting at circuits they had designed that didn't work right. They would come to me at 3:50 p.m. and say "Richard, see if you can figure out what "we"(1) did wrong". If I fixed the bug, the next day the CEO would have the engineer responsible for the circuit buy me lunch from the roach coach. If I couldn't find the bug, more often than not, the design would end up in the Floobydust drawer of dead circuits. |
This is the Area for the Hard Stuff |
| Luckily plating stamps isn't like debugging electronic circuits. And my Floobydust drawer is the internet. This is where I stick the stamps that I couldn't plate in an hour or 2. Perhaps you might see something that I missed or might want to take a stab at plating a real tough one. You'll find them here. I will also try to provide all the info I know about the "floobydust ones" and will stick arrows and notes to anything that appears important. Remember that it's supoosed to be fun, so if you are staring at the computer monitor for more than an hour....that's not fun. If you do manage to plate a Floobydust position, I will buy you a lunch from the roach coach. Just remember..It's fun until someone loses an eye! |
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(1) Have you ever noticed that when doctors fail to fix or diagnose something they always say "Hmmmm ..... Looks like "WE" missed that on your tests." |